OUTspoken Board Meeting
November 9, 2015
Val motions to open at
Representatives for MSO related Meetings
● President’s Roundtable:
○ Nothing - Nov 11th
● SG Meetings:
○ Approved a resolution that we need more rideshare options and
we like uber
○ Reviewed more committee charges and everything was peachy
○ Some members of the Board of trustees are coming and we
have this entire scripted thing to interact with them and please
them and make us look good.
● Finance Meetings/Finance Updates
○ Nothing changed, this week taryn is going to order the stuff that
ray needs.
○ Taryn looked up the banner costs $44.99, including the design
on it.
● Deaf Advocacy
○ Meeting is this week. Max met with Cooper Noris, he’s
struggled with engineering clubs, and the lack of accessibility.
He thinks a main problem is that deaf people don’t know that
they can request interpreters for clubs.
○ Cooper would be interested in working with OUTspoken for an
event.
● Q Senate
○ Nicole and housing committee finished the housing survey so
they’re going to be collecting feedback.
○ Trans week is a go (TDOR) has a flyer and events and we
should advertise it.
○ Labrys didn’t have any issues at their actual meeting, more to
come when they continue to meet with CWAG.
○ Spectrum is no longer having general meetings. They are
switching to an event based club.
○ PAUL DIDN’T SEND ANNOUNCEMENTS
■ He is very remorseful
● Technical Advisory meeting
○ Nothing relevant
Newsletter (11/4)
● Sean has the ritGA survey for submitting questions for Tangent’s
presentation during Trans week.
● ritGA drag show information
● Trans week information (Ben’s poster)
● “what we’ve been working on”
Queer Club Web Pages
● Started, in progress
Health Center
● Received an email back, need to figure out a time to meet with Betty
Vickery. Trying to get the Val/Max/Ginda power team together
● Possibly have online resources for the health center (information on
hormones, services offered, etc).
● Max will set up a meeting time
Year One:
● Year One team had a more passive approach for approaching
LGBTQ+ (students need to talk about it). The problem is that it
doesn’t tend to come up organically. We found out what’s up though.
● We should figure out what we would like to see as far as year one,
and then present it to them.
● Mentioned opportunity to train course professors to help prepare
them to talk about queer stuffs.
Gender Neutral Locker Rooms:
● Mosaic center was formed because of student based proposal, so we
can reach out to them and get some information.
● Recommended to create a proposal, can be sent around to get
feedback and approval (Henry, SG, etc).
● Val really likes some members of SG...wink wink nudge nudge.
Campus Pride Index
● No update yet
● Val has cracked, send help
Holiday Party
● Rainbow elephant? GAYmes
● We need a room, December, end of semester, Bamboo room,
16510a next to Ingle, Gleason/NRH rooms. SDC big room
● December 3, 6-8pm
● We need some kind of food - candy canes pls, candygrams
PANERA,
● We need some OUTspoken gifts to supplement people who
won’t/can’t bring gifts.
● Movie? The Family Stone (too straight, but it has a deaf and a gay)
T-shirts:
● 2 emails about our t-shirt order being on hold because RIT is
trademarked and blah blah we need approval blah blah. Max needs
to read the groupME
● Should still be on schedule for the 16th.
Other Ray Things
● Nothing, mostly Ray will be working on stuff this coming week.
● Queer turkey will be coming to an office near you.
Queer Health Series:
● Received some feedback from Sex in the Brick City meeting. Karen
Pelc is super helpful as a contact.
Meeting ended at
Action Items:
● Paul
○ Can look up catering food places for holiday food and stuff.
○ Wait for Val to yell, and then do announcements.
● Sean
○ Newsletter
○ Queer club sites
○ Gender neutral locker room/Year One updates.
○ Link Updates
● Val
○ Val needs to yell at Paul to do the announcements for Q Senate
● Max
○ Get a room Max (6-8, SDC/NRH/Bamboo/Room next to Ingle)
■ EVR too
○ Set up a meeting with the health center peeps
○ Contact Spectrum/give them the Holiday gift idea list thing.
● Ginda
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● Taryn
○ Will take charge of the item list for the Holiday party. Make
some kind of budget thing, Ray has a lot of ideas for things to
get.
○ Meet w/ Henry because $$$
○ Fill out EAF form for the stuff Ray wants
● Ray
○ do everything he FAILED to do last time
○ ritGA poster/Holiday party poster/